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bloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

One who uses a pistol. [R.] Carlyle.

A small pistol. Donne. Beau. & Fl.

tion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. Piston head (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. -- Piston rod, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. -- Piston valve (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting o…

A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

Hooded; cowled.

A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

A copier. [Obs.] "A copist after nature." Shaftesbury.

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

scopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

One who takes daguerreotypes.

A freed convict. [Australia]

Bleeding at the nose.

The theory or science of the method or grounds of knowledge.

Of or pertaining to the episternum.

A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

cation; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters. A madman's epistles are no gospels. Shak.